Fullerton Transportation Center

Fullerton

Station statistics

Address

Santa Fe Depot:
120 East Santa Fe Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92832
Union Pacific Depot:
110 East Santa Fe Avenue
Fullerton, CA 92832

Lines

Amtrak:

Pacific Surfliner

Southwest Chief

Metrolink:

Orange County Line

91 Line

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Parking

250 spaces

Other information

Opened

1930

Rebuilt

1993

Accessible

Owned by

City of Fullerton

Traffic

Passengers (2011)

436,383^[1] 6% (Amtrak)

Services

Preceding station	Amtrak	Following station
Los Angeles toward San Luis Obispo	Pacific Surfliner	Anaheim toward San Diego
Los Angeles Terminus	Southwest Chief	Riverside toward Chicago
Metrolink
Buena Park toward L.A. Union Station	Orange County Line	Anaheim toward Oceanside
Buena Park toward L.A. Union Station	91 Line	West Corona toward Riverside–Downtown
	Former services
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Los Angeles Terminus	Main Line Via Fullerton, Riverside	Placentia toward Chicago Dearborn Station
	Main Line Via Fullerton, Riverside	Corona Major stations toward Chicago Dearborn Station
	Surf Line	Anaheim toward San Diego

Location

The Fullerton Transportation Center^[2]^[3] is a passenger rail and bus station located in Fullerton, California, United States. It is served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner and Southwest Chief trains, and Metrolink's 91 Line and Orange County Line trains. It is also a major bus depot for the Orange County Transportation Authority, and is one of the major transportation hubs of Orange County.^[2]

The station has two historic depots on site: one built in 1923 by the Union Pacific Railroad^[4] and the other built in 1930 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.^[5] Both depots are on the National Register of Historic Places.^[4]^[5]

The Santa Fe depot serves as an Amtrak ticket office and passenger waiting area and has a cafe.

The Union Pacific Railroad was the third railway to lay tracks through Fullerton and to build a depot.^[6] This helped firmly establish Fullerton as the regional rail center for northern Orange County. Fullerton's redevelopment agency moved the Mission Revival-style building next to the Santa Fe depot in 1980 to preserve it,^[4] and today it is occupied by an Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant.^[7]

In the late 1990s the Fullerton Railway Plaza Association (FRPA) began fundraising and lobbying for the creation of an interactive railroad attraction or museum at the site,^[8] while continuing preservation efforts. Starting in 1999 the Amtrak station and the FRPA were hosts for the annual "Fullerton Railroad Days" event at the Santa Fe depot, an event that attracted between 30,000 to 40,000 participants. Due to the city not supporting the FRPA museum, Railroad Days was not held in 2009 and FRPA looked elsewhere, choosing to hold its 2010 event in neighboring Brea.^[9] The organization subsequently changed its named to the Southern California Railway Plaza Association (SCRPA).

Numerous trains stop each day at Fullerton, as the station is served by Amtrak's popular Pacific Surfliner service, as well as two Metrolink commuter lines. Amtrak's long-distance Southwest Chief also stops once daily in each direction, but only to discharge westbound or board eastbound passengers.

References

^ "Fullerton, CA (FUL)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/FUL. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
^ ^a ^b http://www.ci.fullerton.ca.us/visitors/downtown_fullerton/transportation_center.asp
^ http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=am/am2Station/Station_Page&code=FUL
^ ^a ^b ^c http://www.fullertonheritage.org/Views_Tours/National_Register/updepot.htm
^ ^a ^b http://www.fullertonheritage.org/Views_Tours/National_Register/santafe.htm
^ http://www.trainweb.com/fullerton/history.html
^ http://www.trainweb.com/fullerton/index.html
^ Southern California Railway Plaza Association http://www.scrpa.net/
^ "Railroad Days" event http://www.scrpa.net/scrrdays.htm

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fullerton_Transportation_Center Fullerton Transportation Center] at Wikimedia Commons

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Metrolink

Commuter lines	91 – Antelope Valley – Inland Empire–Orange County – Orange County – Riverside – San Bernardino – Ventura County

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